Strainer for liquor-barrel faucets.



No. 628,805. Patented lu'ly u, I899. E.L;HOPPE.

STR AINER FOR LIQUOR BARREL FAUCETS.

(Application filed Mar. 4, 1899.) (-No Model.)

/ WERE-a l iairl EDVVARDL. I-IOPPE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

STRAINER FOR LIQUOR-BARREL FAUCETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,805, dated July 11, 1899.

Serial No. 707,741. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. HOPPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strainers for Liquor-Barrel Faucets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a strainer attachment adapted to be applied to the necks of faucets used in drawing liquors from barrels, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and efficient strainer by which any rosin or other foreign matter present in the barrel is caught as it flows with the liquor from the faucet.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Figure I is a side View of a faucet with my strainer shown applied thereto and illustrated in section. Fig. II is a perspective View of the strainer. Fig. III is a perspective sectionai view of one-half of the strainer.

1 designates the faucet, which may be of any common form of construction, provided with a neck 2. i

The strainer is composed of a cylindrical thimble-body 3, adapted to fit onto the neck 2 of the faucet and provided at its lower end with an inwardly-extending annular flange t. The thimble is of split form throughout its length and is provided with ears 5, projecting from the thimble at its meeting edges, the said ears 5 being adapted to be brought together by a set-screw 6, whereby the thimble maybe tightly clamped to the neck of the faucet. Seated within the thimble at the bottom thereof on the annular flange'4 is a perforated strainer-disk 7, that may be a piece of sheet metal with perforations therein or may be formed of wire-gauze. The interiorof the thimble contains an elastic liningannulus S, such as rubber, this lining annulus being used to produce a more efiective ad hering of the strainer-thimble to the faucetneck, and a packing or seal for preventing the passage of liquid between the divided part of the thimble-body and the strainerdisk and for holding down the latter.

I claim as my invention- 1. A strainer for faucets comprising a cylindrical thimble-body of split form through out its entire length, and formed with an inwardly-extending annular flange at the bot tom, and with ears projecting outwardly from the divided side of the body, a strainer-disk seated on the annular flange and a clamping set-screw working in the ears; substantially as described.

2. A strainer for faucets comprising .2. cylindrical thimble-body of split form through= out its entire length and formed with an inwardly-extending annular flange at the bottom, and with ears projecting outwardly from the divided side of the body, a strainer-disk seated on the annular flange, an elastic lining annulus seated on the strainer-disk for holding it down, and providing a packing or seal for the meeting edges of the divided side, and a clamping set-screw working in the ears; substantially as described.

EDWARD L. -I-IOPPE.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, G. A. PAUBERSOI-IMIDT. 

